This international master programme is a joint effort of the three partner institutions: Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (in Flensburg, Germany), Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of the University of Ljubljana (in Portorož, Slovenia), and University of Zadar (in Zadar, Croatia).

The programme is designed as a continuation of the undergraduate nautical and marine engineering programmes (but the access is also possible for the bachelors in some other, similar programmes), with an idea to prepare them for the employment in the shipping companies, maritime administration, classification societies, maritime agencies, ports, maritime education institutions and other organisations which are directly or indirectly connected with maritime business.

The objective is to educate the experts in the field of managing and organisation, planning of the operational loads and researching of the maritime transport process, including the organisation of activities at port terminals and application of state of art technologies in the marine transport. Therefore, the students should obtain knowledge in the fields of technology, organisation and utilization of maritime transport, marketing, mathematical modelling, statistics, operational researches, organisation, economics, engineering, automatics, law, information technologies, environmental protection and human resources management.

The programme is at the level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), i.e. it is the second cycle in terms of the Qualifications framework of the European Higher Education Area (QF-EHEA). It is designed as a two-year programme with 120 ECTS points leading to the degree Master of Science in Maritime Management. To be awarded the master degree a student has to obtain 300 ECTS points in total, together with the previously completed bachelor programme.

The first three semesters are organized as taught courses, the first one is Zadar, the second one in Portorož and the third one in Flensburg, while the fourth semester is reserved for the research leading to the master thesis. The courses in the first two semesters are all mandatory, while in the third semester, in addition to the three mandatory courses, students can choose one of the three optional modules.

The brief overview of the courses, together with ECTS points awarded to each course can be found in the Curriculum, while more detailed information, including the learning outcomes and all the course syllabi, can be found in the Course Catalogue. The information about the teachers, including their CVs can be found in the Teaching Staff, while more general information can be found in the Student Guide.

The language of instruction is English.